Uprooting
Seeds of Terror
Knowing
Target is Critical to Campaign's Success
By Wayne S. Smith
 (A
version of this article appeared in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
on September 24, 2001.)
In
the wake of the horrors of September 11, we have vowed not
only to punish those responsible but to defeat Aterrorism@ writ large. To end it, in other words, as an international
threat. Those are goals we must indeed pursue resolutely,
but intelligently and without illusions. Osama bin Laden is
the prime suspect in the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings.
But bringing him to justice will be extraordinarily difficult,
and unless we proceed with great care, we could (cont'd)
The
Center's programs seek to increase international cooperation:
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Defending
against the wrong threat. An obstacle to Russian and European
cooperation.
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 Another
go-it-alone U.S. policy that will complicate formation of a
united front against terrorism.
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Colombiac
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Overmilitarized
approach
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U.S.
policy and the peace process
Timeline of recent events
Information
about the combatants |
CIA
Intelligence reform project
Despite
the expenditure of $30 billion a year there was no warning.
Read why.
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Latin America
Campaign against
nomination of an extremist who would undermine hemispheric cooperation |
Africa
Bush wrongly declared
it nonstrategic. It still has the majority of the world's ongoing
wars and countries on the brink of destabilization.
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Haiti
U.S. nonpolicy is deepening a crisis
near our shores.
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Land
Mines
Working
to get the U.S. on the Ottawa treaty
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America Demilitarization |
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